Shirt and collar fastener



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A. ANGELL SHIRT AND COLLAR FASTENER Filed- Oct. 5, 1925 Patented July 21,

UNITED STATES ANDREW anennn, or REDWOOD FALLS, ivrnvnnsora.

SHIRT AND COLLAR FASTENER.

Application filed October 3, 1923. Serial No. 666,288.

To all whom it may concern:

do it known that ANDREW ANGELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Redwood Falls, in the county of Redwood and State of li Iinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt and Collar Fasteners, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention relates to means for fastening loose collars to shirts, and the main object is to so improve said means that they will not get accidentally separated from the parts they are to attach together but will always be found in place ready for use, and are of such form and materials that they can not get broken by passing the parts through a clothes wringer.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a shirt and a collar attached together by my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a'section through the portion of the collar band of the shirt holding the front collar button with the button therein. Fig. 5 is Fig. 4 modified. Fig. 6 is an enlarged partly sectional view of the collar button and the adjacent eloth,'the button being shown as built up of several parts of certain materials. Fig. 7 is a face view of a blank from which the spider 38 in Fig. 6 is formed. Fig. 8 is a rear view of the collar band. Fig. 9 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. 10 is Fig. 9 modified. Fig. 11 is a front face view of the rear portion of the detachable shirt collar. Fig. 12 is Fig. 11 modified.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 15 designates the upper portion of a shirt having a collar band 16 upon which a collar 17 is detachably secured by means comprising a horizontal tongue 18 made of stiff canvas, or other suitable cloth reinforced by an inlaid strip 19 of whalebone, aluminum or other stiffening material. One end of the tongue is secured by stitches 20 either directly to the collar band as in Fig. 11, or after being inserted between the folds 21 and 22 of the hand, through a slit 23, as in Fig. 12. The free end portion of the tongue is designed to be pushed through an aperture 24: in the rear fold 16 of the collar band 16 (see Fig. 8 and Fig. 2) and remain between the folds 16 and 16 as long as the collar is to stay on the shirt.

In removing the collar the tongue 18 is simply pulled out of the aperture 24. The latter is somewhat larger than just necessary, to make the insertion, adjustment and removal easy. The collar band is usually double, and if it be a single thickness a piece of cloth (not shown) is sewed onto the collar band to form a pocket for the tongue to lie in. One front end of the collar band is provided with a button-hole 25 (shown in Fig. 3) for a collar button 26 adapted to extend through said hole and also through button holes 2? and 28 in the front ends of the collar 17 to hold the latter and also the strap 29 of a necktie (not shown).

The collar button is made of material flexible enough to allow the button stem 26 to bond, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4L, when the shirt is passing through a clotheswringer. ably soft rubber or an other material that will stand bending wit out breaking.

In Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 9 the button may be considered as made in one single piece including its head, stem and a base plate 26", and the latter secured in or to the end of the collar band by stitches 30 and a cloth patch 31, as shown in Figs. 4: and 9; but the base 26 may also be sewed in between the folds of the collar band as shown in Fig. 5.

In Fig. 6 the button is built up of a piece of stiff braided cord forming its stem 26 and the base of the stem consists of the end of the cord spread as 32 between the folds of the collar band and secured by stitches 30 in Fig. 6, or such stitches and a pad 33 (in Fig. 10). In this form the head of the button is a piece of rubber, or leather, 34., having a hole forthe stem and a cavity 35 for a bud or knob 36 formed at the end of the stem or cord 26*. The leather is then covered with a piece of canvas 37, the edge of which is gathered close around the stem and secured by a metal ring or spider 38 having several sharp prongs 39 at right angles to the body of the spider and pressed through the canvas and driven into the leather 35. Said spider and its legs or prongs are formed of a sheet metal blank similar to that shown in Fig. 7.

The invention is applicable to both soft and starched shirts and collars of any desired softness or stiffness, and may be modifled in many ways, one of which being that it is optional to have the tongue 18 secured on the collar and the aperture 24 in the collar band, or the tongue on the shirtand the The button may be made of suit- 7 band of a shirt; said head comprising a body made of leather or similar material, a piece of canvas covering the head thus formed and having its edges gathered about the stem close below the head, and a metal lic spider having a central aperture for the stem and sharp prongs driven through the canvas into the leather.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ANDREIV ANGELL. 

